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LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND THE MEDIA
About the way the media turn truth on its head
The world is going crazy and television news and other communication media have very largely been complicit in this.
          Television and newsprint and music all exert extraordinarily powerful influences upon the way we think. That makes them - and they are - very dangerous to our right-mindedness. We are lied to, misinformed and manipulated and the media willfully put this all across and it cascades down into the public consciousness. Don't shoot the messenger? Sometimes the messenger deserves to be shot.
          We have clearly not been judgemental enough in the recent past. We have too readily and without question accepted insane polcor ('politically correct') and feministic precepts. These zealots have set out to make us throw out normal critical judgement and adopt kneejerk reactions and responses (e.g. Women=good, victims, innocent. Men=bad, perpetrators, guilty. Black people=good. White people=bad).
         And they blatantly promote false myths (e.g. that men are more violent than women, that girls are brighter than boys, that all rapists and paedophiles are men, and so forth).
         We are being well and truly indoctrinated by the zealot-controlled media. (See the page about BBC pro-feminist bias - the BBC has in recent years been busily recruiting these nutters.) The present government is riddled with nutters too - many female ministers seriously advocate fatherless families as a norm.
         And take the Rowntree Foundation, an educational charity well-known for propagating feminista and polcor spin, which recently asserted that its 'research' had shown that girls are brighter than boys and that coloured boys do better than white boys. The foundation's end objective is evident even to those with only half a brain between them. It is to make white boys feel inferior to girls and coloureds.
         And we swallow it all. Hook, line and sinker!
         Much so-called 'news' is in the nature of propaganda and many 'reports', 'studies' or 'findings' are bogus or contrived and intended to create false perceptions in the public mind. (In the scientific community, to take another instance, research papers can hardly be accepted at face value since they are largely sponsored by vested commercial interests. And in many cases they are written just in order to get funding grants from government.)
          So what is it all about? It is about deranged zealots claiming that they are being victimised or otherwise exploited by men. But, as you will see, it is in essence sexism and hateful bigotry against men and boys. (And against women who won't swallow the feminist ideology. Read about the cruel and spiteful ordeal the feminists put a caring young woman, Erin Pizzey, through.)
          You are invited to read what follows very closely ...
 
"Feminism was a bad idea to begin with, and has evolved into a ravenous monster that eats equal rights for breakfast. It's time people understood the extreme anti-male bias in western culture before it's too late. We don't have much time left ...
     You may be surprised to learn that almost everything you have been taught is a lie. Who's been lying to us? I'm glad you asked. The answer is: Everyone. Now, don't be hatin' on your neighbour or your teacher or your pastor. They're only passing on what they were taught. The original lies came from, you guessed it, 'feminism'.
     But why would the feminists lie to us? Wasn't feminism instrumental in freeing women from the "tyrannous yoke of male-dominated society"? Aren't we really better off now? In a word, NO. The fact is that the original conditions cited by the so-called women's movement either existed in a way markedly different than what we were told or they didn't exist at all.
- Could women vote before the 19th amendment? Yes, they could. Not all women but not all men either.
- Could women obtain a higher education before the women's movement? Yes, they could. Not all women but not all men either. Men and women attended different colleges, but both had equal access to education.
- Could women get birth control? No, they couldn't. It wasn't available to men or women.
- Could women work outside the home? Yes, they could. In fact, they very often did.
- Did boys all of a sudden just get stupid and girls all of a sudden just get smart? Is it something in the water?? Of course not. We have radically changed the way we teach to what feminism has dictated."
(from Woman Against Feminism')

Not all women are feminists. Very far from it. But the feminista is a powerful vocal and politically influential minority and its poison spreads throughout society like a creeping miasma. Strangely enough many of feminism’s most effective opponents are women rather than men. (But perhaps not so strange because normal women know from their own experiences and observations that feminist ideology is ludicrously out of tune with women’s priorities and needs.)
 

The notion of the American woman as a powerless 'victim' is one of the most absurd notions ever foisted upon anyone. American women live, on average, seven years longer than men. They control 86% of all personal wealth [PARADE Magazine, May 27, 1990], and make up 55% of current college graduates. Women cast 54% of the votes in Presidential elections, so they can hardly claim to be left out of the political decision-making process! They win almost automatically in child custody disputes. Women suffer only 6% of the work-related fatalities (the other 94% are suffered by men). Women are the victim of only about 35% of violent crimes, and only about 25% of all murders, yet because of our society's exaggerated concern and respect for them, special legislation has been passed to punish 'violence against women' - as if it were a more heinous crime than 'violence against men'. (Feminists claim to want 'equality' and this is an example of what 'equality' means to them i.e. preferential treatment.) Two out of every three dollars spent on health care is spent on women, and even if you don't count pregnancy-related care, women still receive more medical care than men - yet feminists still holler that womens health is being 'neglected', and far too many of us credulously believe them. Of the 25 worst jobs, as ranked by the Jobs Related Almanac based on a combination of salary, stress, security, and physical demands, 24 of them are predominantly, if not almost entirely, male, which might explain why men commit over 80% of all suicides.
- Robert Sheaffer, Writer and Researcher

Yet, despite all this, many women persist in thinking of themselves as 'feminists'. After all, it sounds perfectly reasonable on the face of it - equality between the sexes, right? But if they knew what feminism is really about then they would perhaps be a little more circumspect. We ought not forget that the founders of feminism were borderline psychotics with pronounced sado-narcissistic traits. Like attracts like and so disordered women continue to be attracted into feminist ranks right up to this the present day.
          And understand that there is no such thing as a 'halfway house' or 'reasonable' feminism. The feminista's stance is a ruthless and uncompromising 'you're either 100% with us or against us' and the line between feminism and homosexuality (also known as 'lesbianism') is blurred.
          Feminists and their adherents work hard to distort our reality in order to make their reality feel safer. Theirs is an all-pervasive personality disorder, aptly named because the minds of these people work differently from normal healthy women.

Being Feminine not Feminist

In the 1960s, the American feminista rebranded itself as 'women's liberation' with 'bra burning' as its trademark (although there is no evidence that 'bra burning' ever took place except as a publicity stunt in front of TV cameras). In more recent times it has dropped the 'women's lib' label but it remains what it has always been - a vicious and insidious men-hating ideology without moral authority, without intellectual legitimacy, and with characteristics like that of a cult.
           The zealots at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the U.S. have long been associated with political extremism (like polcor, feminism, and inventing the car bomb) and when the University's Chancellor, Donna Shalala, was appointed Secretary of Health & Human Services by former president Bill Clinton she used her office to push these ideologies further.
          The ultimate aim of feminism is to create a hateful society in which age-old ties among men, women and children are discarded. It is not about 'equality' for females at all, it is about 'superiority'. The feminista wants to call all the shots.

Feminism, the Hate Cult

Make no mistake about it. Real feminism is about unabated hatred of men and boys. Some of the more forthright feminists even openly advocate the disfigurement or 'culling' of men.
          Feminism benefits from human error, misery, and chaos. It divides and destroys. It is anti-father, anti-male, anti-mother, anti-child, even anti-woman. Feminism is an insidious ideology manipulating itself through fronts like women's studies, women's issues, women's shelters, social services, counselling.
          Feminism has always been a fraud. It is not at all about 'equality'. It is about getting preferential treatment for feminists. It deceptively manipulates its cult-like characteristics as a political force claiming to promote 'women's rights' whilst denying the rights of others. It operates in isolation and at the expense of society as a whole and at the expense of family life.
          This deception went undetected for many years. It is a deception that polarises the sexes, divides and attacks the family and children, all through the use of half-truths and false logic. It is a deception which has by now infiltrated most levels of government, church and social movements and which now proliferates itself through our educational systems. Even now we can see the signs of men being turned into an underclass in the eyes of the police and of the law.
          The involvement of an anti-men ideology deceptively disguised as 'women's issues' went undetected at first because it was based on the insidious half-truth - i.e. 'the truth that is a lie'.
          Feminism is founded on half-truths like victimisation and exploitation. The work of some women, like mothers confined to home and households to manage their families, is scorned by feminists because the feminista agenda gives no importance to the family. Similarly, the sacrifices made by some husbands and fathers are totally ignored. And in this world of half-truths the exploitation of men, women and children by the powers-that-be is ignored because it does not fit in with the feministic agenda.
 

Too many prominent feminist leaders are role models of intolerance and anti-male prejudice. Too many play fast and loose with the truth. Students in the feminist classrooms imbibe the false statistics on women's victimisation; they learn all about how men keep women subjugated and frightened. Is it any wonder that the more sensitive among them become horrified at what the sex/gender system is doing to women? Hysteria on campus over the male threat to women's safety and dignity runs higher every year. In that atmosphere, not only fairness but logic and sober learning are at a grave disadvantage.
- Christina Hoff Sommers, Reformed Feminist Writer

The result of feminism has been a combination of disorder and state tyranny, cascading from America to the rest of the world. Feminism has meant growing deceit, heartlessness and brutality in daily life, resulting in particular suffering for the weak. It has meant confusion and misery for the young, who have been deprived of stable family life and concrete ideals of adulthood. It has meant the destruction of local and popular institutions and replaced them with ever more powerful and irresponsible state bureaucracies. It has set some women 'free' but only to turn themselves into sexual commodities. It is obvious that feminism is more about polarisation rather than about normality and harmony.
          The selective manipulation of victimisation, one of the half-truths, is a powerful tool in promoting their anti-male agenda. The course of the so-called 'women's movement' was led by individuals like Gloria Steinem, who had a questionable childhood surrounded by a negative family life and mental illness. This 'black and white thinking' is a common symptom of mental illness and it is a prominent characteristic of the feminist movement.
           The selective manipulation of women's victimisation ignored victimisation of men and children and ignored the victimisation of some women by other women. The psychosis of this manipulation is reflected in the polarisation of victimisation of an individual based on sex, to the false assumption that this affected all individuals of the same sex, normally women, and not any men. This is a clear logical error of philosophy that has intentionally been overlooked in the feminista's blinkered thinking.
            This selective manipulation of violence ignored all other forms of abuse. This is perhaps the most obvious and blatant manipulation by this movement, that ignores all the many forms of abuse, including passive manipulative abuse. Manipulation of 'male versus female' victimisation ignored all other form of victimisation, including social class discrimination.

Breaking the Shackles of Zealotry

If there is anything we learn from all this it is that if we have problems, and we all do, then our best strategy is to take a positive approach to resolving them. It is tragic that in the era of the 'me' generation, problems are looked upon in isolation, in the self and in the now, when we should realise that these problems will affect our children and their grandchildren and their spouses whoever they might be. God only knows. People of suspect are those without children who have no link to the future, and or those with personality disorders.
          In the end polcor and feminism cannot win because they radically undermine any stable and productive ordering of natural private life. By disordering reproduction and child-rearing and the most basic human connections they put long-term social survival in question. They have done a great deal of damage and are bound to do much more before they destroy themselves.

Relearning Freedom   You've been told all your life that you live in a free society. So by now you probably even believe it. But you are not free. You have not been free for a long time. In these dark days we are living under the shadow of twin evils, feminism (sexism against men) and polcor (political correctness). All that remains now is to decide what you intend to do about it.

Relevant Links
What is Political Correctness?
New Zealand Equality Education Foundation
Feminist Narcicissism and Political Power
Empty Days - Who is PolCor?
The Australian Men's Party
Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions
The World According To Bob
These days it seems that men can't do anything right
One of the pupils refused to join the Hitler Youth ...
Cool Tools 4 Men     Links & Resources
Winning a Favourable Custody Arrangement for Men and Women
Feminism's Fanatical Hate     The Murdering, Degrading and Slandering of Men
Fathers 4 Justice / Canada
Women's Freedom Network     Not setting different standards of excellence, morality, or justice for men and women
Fathers 4 Justice / USA
Fathers 4 Justice / Australia
Angry Harry     Feminism For Male College Students 
Men's Activism News
Women in the Fathers' Rights Movement     Women often are supplying the muscle behind the fathers' rights movement
Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women
Mathew's Anti-Feminism    For the majority of my youth, I was what one might call 'pro-feminism' because I believed a lot of what was said ...
Upstream: Women Critical of Feminism
The Open Directory listing of opposing views to feminism. Also see the section about feminism in their section on men's issues
The Feminist Road to Totalitarianism    by Aidan Rankin
What Sex Is Your Brain?     Excerpt from the book Brain Sex, by Anne Moir and David Jessel, on differences in men's and women's brains and their consequences
The Garbage Generation      Book by Daniel Amneus on the disastrous decline of the two-parent family and the need to strengthen the father's role, its weakest link
Bring back the stay-at-home mom     Daycare really isn't so great, no matter what feel-good propaganda you may have read
Daycares Don't Care, Where is the Love?   A collection of materials on daycare
Home-Alone America    The social consequences of children raising themselves 
Domestic Violence Against Men in Colorado     Our objective is to fix the problem, not the blame
CPF The Fatherhood Coalition     Promoting shared parenting and the end of discrimination and persecution faced by divorced and unwed fathers
The Men's Activism News Network
U.K. Men's Movement
Welcome to NoJustice.info     Fighting anti-men and anti-family law and policy in Canada
Civil Rights Organisation      Campaigning against false allegations of sexual harassment and countering these
Fathers and Men's Rights     by Stephen Baskerville, Ph. D.  The Divorce Regime, Family Court Corruption, and Government's War on Fathers 
Modern Manhood   by Roger Scruton
Progressive Education's War on Boys     by Janet Daley. In Britain, progressive education banished competition and testing as harmful and elitist
Wimps and Barbarians     Discussion of what the destruction of civilised gender ideals has meant for young men
A Boyhood Stolen     a review of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl   by John Colapinto (HarperCollins, 2000)
NoMarriage.com       Marriage and Relationship Advice for Men and Women
Ladies Against Feminism         Asking feminists to propose solutions to real-life problems would be like asking an arsonist to put out a fire
Concerned Women for America     Protecting Moral Values
REAL Women of Canada       An independently-minded women's group: Women's rights but not at the expense of human rights
 

The Evil of Political Correctness The Evil of Sexist Feminism